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Drill programme at Dangou area delivers promising results for Semafo

21st January 2019

By: Simone Liedtke

Creamer Media Social Media Editor & Senior Writer

     

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A fourth-quarter drill programme returned promising results from three sectors, including 19 m at 4.17 g/t gold from 42 m, at Canada-based mining company Semafo’s Dangou area, located northeast of the company’s Boungou mine, in Burkina Faso.

A total of 5 210 m of drilling were completed in the fourth quarter at Dangou, with the programme having been designed to focus on the best intersections obtained in the second quarter and to establish the geometry of the mineralisation.

However, the TSX-listed company on Monday stated that, based on the current drilling, the mineralised zones appeared to strike north-south and dip steeply to the east.

This, Semafo said, was consistent with small abandoned artisanal mining pit data obtained further north. The gold mineralisation is associated with altered and locally sheared intervals of the intrusive rocks.

These new results demonstrate the lateral continuity of the gold mineralisation, the company said.

Further efforts this year will focus on establishing the lateral and down-dip extension of the zones with the objective of providing satellite deposits within trucking distance of the Boungou mill.

Early exploration success on the Tapoa property is significant to Semafo, as it highlights the potential of the property, which, with the exception of the Boungou mine, remains underexplored.

In addition to the Dangou area, the 2019 Boungou programme will explore different gold-in-soil and auger drilling anomalies throughout the property.

Edited by Chanel de Bruyn
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor Online

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